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Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese Martial Art that combines self-defense with meditation and breath control. This class will improve flexibility, balance and overall wellbeing. Continuing students need instructor’s approval.
Handbuilding is the art of making ceramic forms without the use of a potter’s wheel. Students will study the basics of building pots by pinch, coil, and/or slab built techniques, and learn the important safety guidelines and procedures of ceramics studio. For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes, the tuition includes a $98 pass-through supply…
This class will explore advanced forms or a series of work. Examples of projects may include handles, thrown and altered forms, bowls, and lidded jars. Prerequisite – 2 Beginner Level Wheel classes. For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes, the tuition includes a $98 pass-through supply fee, which covers the cost of one bag of…
This is the perfect entry level class for beginning wheel students. It will cover the basic techniques of throwing, glazing, and firing. Students will also learn the important safety guidelines and procedures of the ceramics studio. Projects on the wheel will focus on small forms (cups, bowls, saucers). For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes,…
This class explores the firing process of Callanwolde Pottery Studio’s Cross-Draft Soda Kiln. Students will study the effects of introducing Soda into the kiln and the effects that can be achieved with flashing slips and glaze. Our main spring quarter throwing project will focus on lidded vessels. For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes, the…
This class introduces students to the atmospheric firing process of soda in a cross-draft kiln. It is ideal for students interested in the balance between control and unpredictability that this type of firing offers. Participants will learn how flame movement, kiln placement, and soda introduction affect surface development, flashing, and glaze response. Students will take…
NOTE: Class skips June 10 and 17 Reconnect breath with body. In this class we’ll use meditation and breathing techniques (pranayama) to calm the nervous system, move through postures (asanas) for strength, flexibility and balance, cultivate mindfulness and relax into a state of well-being. This class is appropriate for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.…
Internship course for learning to operate a pottery studio. Kiln firing and design, basic glaze formulation, and photographic techniques will be covered. You will work with assistants and attend 5 mandatory lecture sessions. (This course is required prior to application for pottery assistantship.) Tuition includes the cost of studio manual.
NOTE: Skips June 17 Blueberry picking, late light, and evening swimming: let’s turn these fleeting moments into poetry! Join us for a generative writing workshop where we’ll read, write, and play with poems inspired by summer: its sense of place, love, memory, and those soft, bittersweet endings. We’ll dip into the work of traditional and…
Whether knitting has been on your “someday” list for years or you tried it once and set it aside, this is your class. In four welcoming, hands-on weeks, you’ll build real skills — casting on, knit and purl stitches, and binding off — with plenty of individual support to keep you moving forward confidently. We’ll…